Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread Troy Daniels
Michael Nelson wrote: I have a Quantum Superloader3 LTO-3 jukebox with one magazine (eight slots) and one drive. I have been backing our servers up to it successfully, after much tweaking. My problem is that I don't really want it to continue backing up to one tape until it's full. I am

Re: [Bacula-users] How long should volume pruning take?

2006-09-21 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 03:10:27PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: 10 GB is pretty big, but there are users with databases that large. Take a look at src/cats/make_mysql_tables. There are a few tips in that file for creating extra indexes if you have slow pruning. Once you have the indexes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
Sorry for not resending the needed informations, I already sent them when I first encountered the problem. But then I could solve this by moving the Director together with the DB (I had another Solaris machine in that situation). I'm appending the original infos here. On postgres, I just

[Bacula-users] Job don't make backup but just launch script

2006-09-21 Thread Gildas Cuisinier
Hello, I've a little problem : We use bacula to do all backup, but by security we search a way to backup the backup made by bacula. Actually, we found 2 ways but not completly clean. The first is to modify the Run After Backup scripts of the catalog backup job, to add a call to our shell

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread Janco van der Merwe
Is there a script that can be written so that when the last job is complete Bacula automatically unloads the tape to it original slot and mount a new tape from a different slot? Reason I ask is that I have the same question but I don’t know what the variables will be for such a script, I mean

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula gets tired.

2006-09-21 Thread MaxxAtWork
On 9/21/06, Ian Leithhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems odd. Bacula job starts , connects to a remote client (no firewall, etc), and storms away transferring data very fast. Then after some time or volume, it just stops. Packet sniffing indicates very light (keep alive?) traffic,

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/21/2006 2:24 AM, Michael Nelson wrote: I have a Quantum Superloader3 LTO-3 jukebox with one magazine (eight slots) and one drive. I have been backing our servers up to it successfully, after much tweaking. My problem is that I don't really want it to continue backing up to one

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client permissions

2006-09-21 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/21/2006 5:03 AM, Roy Vestal wrote: Does anyone know how to keep a client from being able to restore data from another client? Specifically Windows clients? Specifics: I have 2 clients I'm testing with. Client1 is a linux machine, Client2 is a Windows machine. When I do a restore

Re: [Bacula-users] useful indexes (was Re: dbcheck needs very long time...)

2006-09-21 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-09-20 19:10, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Birger Blixt The problem is that depending on your data and usage of the database, YMMV. Optimizations that work for one person might not benefit another. For example: adding indexes _usually_ speeds query performance, but it also

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client permissions

2006-09-21 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-09-21 05:03, Roy Vestal wrote: Does anyone know how to keep a client from being able to restore data from another client? Specifically Windows clients? Specifics: I have 2 clients I'm testing with. Client1 is a linux machine, Client2 is a Windows machine. When I do a restore from

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
That postgres db is being used on the network all day long.- I use it from web apps through jdbc- I use it from pgadmin on a windows laptop- I use it from custom softwares on desktopsThis problem arises only when I use bconsole on Bacula and the Director is separated from the DB.Everything works

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.11 wants tape to be in the other drive in autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running into a situation where Bacula wants a given volume to be in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when it's already in the other drive. I saw similar situations under Bacula 1.38.9, but I've since upgraded

[Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

2006-09-21 Thread Vadim A. Umanski
Здравствуйте, bacula-users. Dear colleagues, an advice needed. I've got a mail server, the BackUp solution is Bacula 1.38.9. I've got a lot of data on Accounts disk slice, and the mail server's CPU is not too strong (UltraSPARC II 450 MHz) and Full backup takes 3-4 times more when GZip option

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

2006-09-21 Thread Pietari Hyvärinen
I have now somehow working configurations dir.conf (compressed mode ) autochanger LTO3 autochanger-2 LTO2 sd.conf (compressed mode, see previous messages in thread) autochanger drive-1 drive-2 autochanger2 drive-3 drive-4 when running status via bconsole i get this *status Status available

[Bacula-users] trying to get the configuration right

2006-09-21 Thread Mike
I almost have bacula working, but I'm still a little off. The backups are happening and the Backup-Catalog job is there. Yesterday I turned on the flag so that once a volume is written to the volume is marked as 'Used' so that the RunAfterJob script can eject the tape for sending offsite. The

[Bacula-users] podcast about Bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ == interview about Bacula Look for talk # 67 -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Vadim A. Umanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Здравствуйте, bacula-users. Dear colleagues, an advice needed. I've got a mail server, the BackUp solution is Bacula 1.38.9. I've got a lot of data on Accounts disk slice, and the mail server's CPU is not too strong (UltraSPARC II 450

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

2006-09-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Perhaps you could NFS mount the mail server's disk on the bacula server, then use the local backup server's fd to back it up with compression. j On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Vadim A. Umanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Здравствуйте, bacula-users. Dear colleagues, an

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry for not resending the needed informations, I already sent them when I first encountered the problem. But then I could solve this by moving the Director together with the DB (I had another Solaris machine in that situation). I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I really doubt it's a network issue, in this case.I would find the problem on all the other applications using the same postgres.And consider that I can replicate the problem ALWAYS.Any Bacula installation I have (10-12) will react the same once I move the DB away from localhost.I will do

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
..I did the test. Specifying "localhost" and "5432" on "DB Address" and "DB Port" works fine. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com Da: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
This foray has gotten very frustrating for me. Please excuse if the following replies seem inflammatory, but it comes from an honest desire to _really_ help. In response to Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That postgres db is being used on the network all day long. - I use it from web apps

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Vadim A. Umanski wrote: But the mail server data can be compressed approx. 50% and I wouldn't like to spend unneeded space ... Full backup would take about 80-90 GB of raw data. Assuming you have a modern tape drive (anything more recent than last 10 years), then

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgres 8.1

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 21 Sep 2006 at 16:13, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ..I did the test. Specifying localhost and 5432 on DB Address and DB Port works fine. Gabriele: There is something, somewhere, odd/wrong about your configuration. I do not know if it is Bacula or PostgreSQL or something else. Within the past

[Bacula-users] Encrypted backupe service

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
I saw these two posts today: Encrypted snapshotted remote backup http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-09-13-encrypted-backup.html More about encrypted backup http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-09-14-more-about-backup.html Interesting reading considering how we have encrypted backups in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula gets tired.

2006-09-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Ian Leithhead schrieb: This seems odd. Bacula job starts , connects to a remote client (no firewall, etc), and storms away transferring data very fast. Then after some time or volume, it just stops. Packet sniffing indicates very light (keep alive?) traffic, but no data transfer.

[Bacula-users] Bacula + Mysql Question

2006-09-21 Thread Junior Cunha
Hello I've bacula runnning under FC3 on a dual-processor machine (P3 500Mhz). Around 16000 backups already been done (150 per day). Lately, i've been some performance problem. While the jobs are running, the load is up to 3 and the % user (sar -u) is 97%. In process list i see this: PID

Re: [Bacula-users] trying to get the configuration right

2006-09-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski
If you can be that predictable, you just put the eject script in the RunAfter of the Catalog, not the other job. They're both jobs getting executed, so that should work fine. Mike wrote: I almost have bacula working, but I'm still a little off. The backups are happening and the Backup-Catalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client permissions

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Brennen
Arno Lehmann wrote: On 9/21/2006 5:03 AM, Roy Vestal wrote: Does anyone know how to keep a client from being able to restore data from another client? Specifically Windows clients? Specifics: I have 2 clients I'm testing with. Client1 is a linux machine, Client2 is a Windows machine.

[Bacula-users] quick question on spool and multiple jobs

2006-09-21 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello. Is it possible/safe to allow more than one job at a time to the same pool using a large spool? Thanks -- Jaime Ventura [Infra-estruturas e Comunicações] Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200 - 072 Porto Telef: +351 22 834 05 00 (04) - ext. 1641 Fax:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Mysql Question

2006-09-21 Thread Matt Cowger
I would argue that this machine is probably underpowered for what you are doing with it. My guess is it has a single disk (or RAID1), and not a ton of RAM, either, right? Upgrade itDual 2GHz P4s, 2G RAM, 4 disks in a RAID 10 would do you much better. --Matt On Sep 21, 2006, at 8:15

[Bacula-users] volume management/disk to disk to tape/ 2 month rolling cycle.

2006-09-21 Thread Fred Dussault
Greetings, I have a question that may be simple for some, but not so for me. I am in the process of beta testing bacula for our environment and I'm trying to get my brain around volume management for our requirements. I plan on going disk to disk to tape, in a ~3 month cycle. I back up about

Re: [Bacula-users] trying to get the configuration right

2006-09-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Mike wrote: Mike wrote: I almost have bacula working, but I'm still a little off. The backups are happening and the Backup-Catalog job is there. Yesterday I turned on the flag so that once a volume is written to the volume is marked as 'Used' so that the RunAfterJob script can eject the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Mysql Question

2006-09-21 Thread Junior Cunha
Ryan, what you mean with Optimizing?? I already compiled MySQL with InnoDB support. I was thinking in create some index... []s Jr Ryan Novosielski wrote: I think it ought to run fine. Optimizing MySQL would likely help. I am running Bacula on a Sun Sparc UE450. The processors are

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Mysql Question

2006-09-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski
That's what I was referring to. Junior Cunha wrote: Ryan, what you mean with Optimizing?? I already compiled MySQL with InnoDB support. I was thinking in create some index... []s Jr Ryan Novosielski wrote: I think it ought to run fine. Optimizing MySQL would likely help. I am

[Bacula-users] bacula configure fails on Unable to find Gnome 2 installation

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, Trying this on Redhat Enterprise 3, I have attached the config.log src/gnome2-console does exists in the bacula directory. Mark -- - Mark Maciolek Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Morse Hall Room

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: Hi, I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage daemon on a Debian (sarge) machine which has a scsi DLT tape drive attached to it. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Fred Dussault
HI there, do you have the AutomaticMount = yes; directive set in the device resource (for your tape drive) in your bacula-sd.conf file? Fred Hi, I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Sarath Jayewardena
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: Hi, I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage daemon on a Debian (sarge) machine

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:35, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: On 21 Sep 2006 at 10:08, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: Hi, I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Brennen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 12:08 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage daemon on a Debian (sarge) machine which has a scsi DLT tape drive attached to

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Sarath Jayewardena
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 12:08 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: I am experimenting to see whether bacula would be a good system for me to backup our department's servers. I am running bacula director and storage daemon on a Debian (sarge)

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Brennen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 01:01 pm, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote: In your described case it might well be as simple as mounting the drive with bconsole if you manually eject/reinsert it. Thank you all you nice people offering help. This is really

[Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

2006-09-21 Thread Richard White
Greetings all. We have been running bacula for a couple of years now (presently on 1.36.3) and I have lurked in this forum off and on since then. I did post some newbie questions back then as well. My boss has tasked me with exploring the GUI consoles and showing them to him so he can decide

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 21 Sep 2006 at 11:37, Richard White wrote: I'll see if there is some way I can get the county to contribute to the cause, though that might be difficult (what would we put on the PO?). Backup Consulting Services. :) I, and others here, hire ourselves out, either for code changes or

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.11 wants tape to be in the other drive in autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:34:47 BST, The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.11 wants tape to be in the other drive in aut ochanger were: = On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = = I'm running into a situation where Bacula wants a given

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

2006-09-21 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/21/2006 9:30 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 21 Sep 2006 at 11:37, Richard White wrote: I'll see if there is some way I can get the county to contribute to the cause, though that might be difficult (what would we put on the PO?). Backup Consulting Services. :) I, and others

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

2006-09-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the message dated: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:12:48 BST, The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in s ame changer were: = = On Mon, 18 Sep

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

2006-09-21 Thread John Drescher
On 9/21/06, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all. We have been running bacula for a couple of years now(presently on 1.36.3) and I have lurked in this forum off and on sincethen. I did post some newbie questions back then as well.My boss has tasked me with exploring the GUI

[Bacula-users] migration vs. replication

2006-09-21 Thread Jeff Dickens
I was just looking through the migration docs, and boy this is just what I've been waiting for. Now I'm wondering if a vmware machine can access a physical tape drive so I give this a shake without stepping on my current config. But the following question presented itself: If you do a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client permissions

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Brennen
On Thursday 21 September 2006 03:34 pm, Arno Lehmann wrote: A couple of days ago I posted on a restore not working from a windows clients running the latest CVS for director and storage daemons, and the latest windows beta client. That client is tightly ACL restricted, only 'restore'

[Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel Hoeving
Im trying to restore a specific file from a tape in my monthly pool. The back-up is about three months old the job is still listed in the catalog. When I run a list jobs command it shows the job with one file (the one I want) tells me the size of it and when it was started. When I try to